MDK 2

List Price: $54.95 Discount Price: $15.91

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PC Gamer (1-year)

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Slick, action packed and entertaining [Posted on 2001-09-12]
MDK2 appears at first to be a third-person shooter with some jumping and puzzle elements thrown in to make your brain feel occasionally involved. Once you scratch the surface, however, you find that MDK is actually primarily a console-style puzzle solving/jumping game with some blast-everything-that-moves action elements thrown in. You play primarily as three different characters who each take different parts of the fairly entertaining story about alien invasion and who each have very different play styles. As "Kurt," who is wearing a specially made suit, you do a lot of alien blasting with a machine gun and you use his jump parachute and very cool sniper rifle to solve a lot of puzzles. Your first clue that it isn't a real "shooter" is the very limited variety of weapons and the ease with which you can defeat the aliens (they don't do much damage to you when they hit you, for example).
As "Max," the six-legged robot dog, you do more blasting and less jumping, though there is a rather too-long jump segment involving a jet pack that constantly requires refueling.
As "Doc", you revert to almost entirely jumping and puzzle-solving, where even the occasional combat is a puzzle-solving effort as you assemble weapons from various things you find around the station. For example, Doc's primary weapon is radioactive toast he fires from a nuclear toaster.
If you are like most PC gamers (and unlike console gamers) even one jumping puzzle is one too many, and though the ones in MDK2 are frequently very clever and innovative in their design, forcing you to interact with the world in order to set up the "steps" of your jumps, they are PLENTIFUL and can get very irritating the 100th time you've fallen off a steel girder because you couldn't peg a landing on just the right pixel. The game earns forgiveness points, though, for having a very handy quicksave/quickload hotkey setup, so you can quicksave your game prior to each jump and quickload after each failure without too much effort. But, does a gamer really need to be subjected to that sort of activity?
Nonetheless, the game isn't overly challenging, it lets you save anywhere you like, it sports a simple interface allowing keyboard or joystick control with customization, and its comic book-inspired visual style, hip music and good sound effects create a game world that's interesting and entertaining to play in.
At its best, MDK2 lets you vent frustrations as you run and blast critters, gives you a sense of accomplishment as you solve a puzzle or set of jumps, and entertains you with a tongue-in-cheek back story furthered by in-engine cutscenes with decent voice acting.
At its worst, however, MDK2 is a tedious, frustrating console jumper disguised in a PC CDROM. If lots of jumping puzzles and fairly light "action" appeal to you, this game may be right for you.

Interesting game, but relies too much on jumping puzzles. [Posted on 2002-09-08]
For the most part, this is an okay game. The characters can be funny at times, and the weapons are kind of cool. One major problem is that it's not clear how you're supposed to get past certain parts of the game. You can sit there shooting away at everything and not know what you're really supposed to be doing.

The reason I gave this one star (and would have given it even less if I could) is because this game relies heavily on jumping puzzles. I hate games that require me to jump up and up and up, then punish me severely for missing a single jump. I'd have been happier if they had just put more bad guys in the levels and used some other sort of puzzles.

Very Fun [Posted on 2002-12-15]
I definently love this game because it's action and a shooting game. I love to play Max,(the dog) because he can shoot with 4 guns at the same time. and at someplaces there aer unlimited uri guns. I hope everyone tries this great game!

Good But Not Great [Posted on 2003-11-26]
MDK2 is better than the first because you can play with more charecters.
This game is funny, but hard.
I got stuck on 2 levels and had to use a cheat to get to the next level.
The proffesur is the most harddest one, but I made it.
It took me along time to beat this game.
If u like thinking games this is for u.
The only 1 thing I dont know in this game, is what the hell does MDK stands for?
If u know please righ me, my E-Mail is: superstas3000hotmail.com
Oh and if you are stuck, then go to: www.cheatplanet.com where there is a lot of cheats. (Thats where I got the cheats from)
I hope this was helpful, and remember if u know what MDK stands for then right me please.
Thanks. :-)

They don't make them like this anymore [Posted on 2007-01-03]
This game is fun, a lot of fun. It has humor, action, puzzles, and 3 quite diverse playable characters. What more could you want? Actually, a few things...

Having not played the original, I picked up the storyline from the opening cinematics displayed comic book style. The game has 10 levels, three for each character, and the last playable by all three characters (with slightly different endings). The boss battles are quite cool, usually requiring you to figure something out about the boss or have an eye for that special orb you have to snipe. The level design is nothing short of spectacular, with innovative use of all of your gadgets, weapons, or coils. I had much fun playing it.

The graphics are quite Shiny (pun intended), the programming is sheer genius. I found no detractings such as pixilated characters or blocky models, and I thoroughly enjoyed the graphics despite being spoiled by games like Oblivion.

Now the complaints. With only 10 levels, I found the game quite short. It was saccarine while I was playing it, but after it's over, it's over. The replay value is small, and there is no multiplayer, hence the 3 stars.

But, with the game being as cheap as it is today, I would recommend buying this jewel just for the short blast of fun. It's something that's very unique and probably will never be duplicated. Buy it and pay tribute to the great team that produced this.

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